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his searing lead to subcommittee report that provided the snapshot of the well-being of american children based on family economic security, education and child health and provided policy recommendations to improve outcomes in these areas. release of the state of american child report, senator dodd and senator bob casey focused on save the children to create a periodic report card to provide and holistic picture of children's unmet needs in america and policy suggestions on how to meet those needs. so one of the things we think about this report is i have four kids and i went back in the past few weeks and i figured out that my kids decorated about 300 times a year, whether it's tests, quizzes, homework assignments, plus all the testing required by national policy. so no child left behind, et cetera. so 300 times a year. what we thought about here was about how real is the nation are doing, so what is a report on how we are faring for kids? so this is a chance to turn this around and grade ourselves or copies of the report are available as you all know on her website. our grades are not a
his searing lead to subcommittee report that provided the snapshot of the well-being of american children based on family economic security, education and child health and provided policy recommendations to improve outcomes in these areas. release of the state of american child report, senator dodd and senator bob casey focused on save the children to create a periodic report card to provide and holistic picture of children's unmet needs in america and policy suggestions on how to meet those...
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over the coming months, the sears would meet regularly. the syrians would meet regularly. the syrians would meet regularly. in some cases, twice a month. the experts were divided amongst these categories that would work within that group to develop a vision for an answer to the question to what the alternative will be. what was important for us is for us to get many of the ideas and visions that people have and articulate them in a form that could then be used by a future transitional government or entity that would emerge from the opposition so that when the regime forms, they would have the information and tools and support that they would need in order to see this transition through. it is important for me to also say that this is not -- we are not the only people who have helped set up something like this. there are other people who have also done, you know, more focused or similar types of work, and this is all supposed to be the day after. it was supposed to be at the disposal of the opposition. there is a misconception that transition begins when the regime falls. w
over the coming months, the sears would meet regularly. the syrians would meet regularly. the syrians would meet regularly. in some cases, twice a month. the experts were divided amongst these categories that would work within that group to develop a vision for an answer to the question to what the alternative will be. what was important for us is for us to get many of the ideas and visions that people have and articulate them in a form that could then be used by a future transitional...
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Oct 29, 2012
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of cambridge and middle east scholar at the university of utah examines current events including the searing civil war, the threat from iran nuclear program, the formation of new alliances and what she calls the arab cold war. she spoke at a form of the world affairs council in dallas-fort worth. this 50 minute event begins with an introduction by the council's chairman, patricia patterson. [inaudible conversations] >> i'm excited to welcome you to jesus patterson endowment lecture. the public menu in this room, the patterson endowment was established over years ago to bring people of greatness who could speak on strategic international issues. and we certainly have an outstanding star in that department today. roxane farmanfarmaian is an affiliated lecturer at the international relations department at cambridge university. she is also affiliated as a middle east scholar at the hinckley institute of politics at the university of utah, which is closely involved with the middle east center there in utah, which interestingly is the oldest middle east center in the country. she is also a fellow
of cambridge and middle east scholar at the university of utah examines current events including the searing civil war, the threat from iran nuclear program, the formation of new alliances and what she calls the arab cold war. she spoke at a form of the world affairs council in dallas-fort worth. this 50 minute event begins with an introduction by the council's chairman, patricia patterson. [inaudible conversations] >> i'm excited to welcome you to jesus patterson endowment lecture. the...
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Oct 9, 2012
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yesterday, seared in the speech from his critical, but not nearly in the same town and ask it did not suggest anything in particular that he would do differently with regards to what is clearly a very unstable situation in libya today. that being said, i think the caller reflects an important point of view that is out there and one that both obama and romney need to address, which is the question of al qaeda and u.s. national security is really what american voters do care about. they may be less concerned about what is happening with writing a new constitution in tunisia, although that is an important moment for this middle east, but they are certainly concerned if the instability of this up evil gives rise to new ungoverned spaces, which allow al qaeda or its affiliate and ideally that is what happened in benghazi and parts of libya. libya arguably is the new semi-failed state in the business central government control over all of this territory and that's part of why you saw this terrible security strategy. but on the specifics of the incident, there's an official investigation and
yesterday, seared in the speech from his critical, but not nearly in the same town and ask it did not suggest anything in particular that he would do differently with regards to what is clearly a very unstable situation in libya today. that being said, i think the caller reflects an important point of view that is out there and one that both obama and romney need to address, which is the question of al qaeda and u.s. national security is really what american voters do care about. they may be...